Hilarity ensues when the power goes out and the substitute buses are routed to South Station:
... Another thing about the Silver Line is that all of the T employees were yelling at people not to board them when they arrived. This is pretty strange, considering the Airport station is not on its usual route. So apparently the MBTA were re-routing Silver-Line buses with the sole intention of taunting everyone late for work stuck in a huge crowd. ...
Yes, it's another episode of "Compare a busy, decaying Blue Line stop to the stunning, rarely used Courthouse stop on the Silver Line." Today's contestant: Fabulously Out There, who reports from the decaying steps leading from the Blue Line to the Orange Line at historic State Street station:
... There is a woman sitting on the stairs and a MBTA dude standing in front of her.
My immediate thought? A drunk? This early. Jesus christ. Then I noticed her business attire clothing and while I am walking down the stairs I am noticing several chunks of one of them crumbled on the floor.......then I pass the lady and she's in tears holding her ankle talking on her cell phone while the MBTA guy talks on his walkie-talkie. ...
Earlier:
Maverick vs. Courthouse.
To maintain their blood pressure, regular users of the Blue Line's Maverick station should probably avoid the Silver Line's beautiful, little used Courthouse station:
... The Maverick Station in East Boston that has a thousand times more use and serves the local public on a daily basis, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Now it has apparently been put on the back burner as the under funded, poor quality of materials and lack of oversight and caring of our local publicly elected officials should be in the spotlight. ...
MBTA police say violent and theft-related crime in the transit system dropped 10% last year, but that non-violent crime, such as public drunkeness and lewdness, vandalism and mouthing off (a.k.a. "simple assault") went up 12%.
When the T was deciding which company to chose to build new bus and trolley fare boxes, it basically had a choice between a model that would let riders throw change in all at once (like they'd been doing forever) or one that would force riders to put co
Yeah, City Hall sucks and yeah, the South Boston waterfront is just so buildalicious, and yeah, the city might get $300 million for the old building. But a key point of a city hall is accessibility to the people who pay for it. Does a City Hall reachable only by bus meet that criterion?
Tommy Von: haha. E-Z access out there:
I'm sure everyone would be thrilled to take the silver line everyday.
David Bernstein: "But think of the view from the Mayor's office!
Atlrvr might be willing to consider the move if the building became a great public space:
I just have a problem taking city hall out of the center of the city, where it is easily accessible to most everyone, and sticking it somewhat out of the way. It seems like the city is so committed to the South Boston Waterfront (BRA's aggressive entitlement, new courthouse, relocated ICA, new Conventrion Center, etc....) but they fail to take the most basic aspect into account. ACCESSIBILITY!!!! ...
John Keith: Menino hits the bottle, big time.
Matt Margolis can't stand City Hall, but doesn't want to see more waterfront space given over to government buildings.
Bruce wonders why this is news:
Boston City Hall, the Massachusetts State House and the Attorney General's office have been for sale for decades now.
But Ian offers five reasons to move City Hall, including:
Because we will finally be able to get rid of a building which is quite possibly The Worst Example Of Public Archetecture In The Whole Entire World.
Chris Webb gets annoyed when he reads a quote from state officials that East Boston doesn't need the Blue Line connected to the Red Line, because it's already se
Sean McCarthy loves it AND hates it:
... Rush hour and Logan are great reasons to rely on the Silver Line.
Imagine if Spartacus had been a harried bus rider having trouble getting change out of his pocket instead of a Roman slave. BadTransit fills in the rest.
Muppetboy grows weary of headphone-wearing Silver Line riders on the "inside" seats:
The Transport Avenger sees a T inspector enjoy throwing his weight around on the Silver Line at the Courthouse stop.
John Keith takes a Silver Line bus to the airport, says he won't be making that mistake again:
Tim Jarrett did not have a good travel day yesterday - thanks to the Big Dig, the MBTA, JetBlue and Amtrak. And why, he wonders, are Silver Line buses not air conditioned?
Ben Ostrander looks up from inside his overcrowded, seriously late and completely un-air-conditioned Silver Line bus to see an MBTA ad claiming that every MBTA
Ben Ostrander finds it absurd that it takes him 25 to 30 minutes to go one mile from his South Boston office to South Station on this "rapid" transit line.
Based on what happened with the Central Artery, John Daley is not real optimistic that the T's latest Silver Line tunnel plan will go as planned:
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